Amazon Kinesis is powering many of the real-time technologies you use and see today. And we do this at a colossal scale; worldwide Kinesis works with billions of events and petabytes of data each day in support of many thousands of customers running mission-critical real-time applications.

Customers like Major League Baseball (MLBAM) are using Kinesis to ingest game data, analyze it, and deliver the insights to viewers as they happen. Similarly Sonos is using Kinesis to collect and analyze real-time data from millions of devices to provide better experiences to their customers

They choose Kinesis because the fully managed service makes real-time data ingestion, processing, and delivery easy, all at a low cost. As a result of these benefits customers of every size are moving quickly from batch to real-time processing. At the same time Kinesis continues to push the technical boundaries of real-time processing and we are growing our team to support these game changing innovations. As a member of our team you'll get to work on a variety of technologies, including but not limited to new customer facing features, APIs, Open-Source technologies, and core distributed systems.

We are looking for a talented developer to build the next generation of real-time data streaming solutions. In your new job, you get the opportunity to influence design and further scaling and simplification of live data streaming platform. You will get opportunity to work together with a group of talented engineers through your experience of large scale distributed systems development. You will build large scale distributed system components using the massive frameworks and builder tools provided by Amazon builder ecosystem.

As Part Of This Job You’ll Get To

Solve tough problems that will make your nerdiest friends jealous
Design, write and release software for large scale distributed systems.
See your innovations in use by ‘real’ customers – small, large and really large
Collaborate with some of the leading minds in distributed systems and Big Data
Work in a team-oriented, solution-focused environment

Are a group of technologists from diverse backgrounds
Obsess over our customer’s needs and experience
Are owners. We love building new innovative technologies, and improving our existing ones
Wear multiple hats. We enjoy the prototyping and tinkering stages, as well as the rigor of making solutions production-ready.
Are fast-growing, agile and collaborative

You

Enjoy seeing the impact your work has on real customers
Are comfortable in an agile environment and create order from ambiguity
Are excited about the incredible opportunity distributed systems represent
Build strong teams with others as passionate as you about this mission
Take ownership and doing whatever it takes to get the job done
Want to create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
Proficiency with object-oriented, data structures, and algorithms.
Ability to take a project from requirements analysis through to launch and operation of the system in production.

Preferred Qualifications

Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
Experience building extremely high volume and highly scalable web services.
Experience building highly available systems and operating 24x7 services.
Experience with systems, consistent hashing, locking, replication, and load balancing.
Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science.
Working knowledge of non-relational databases.

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